Macro- and micro- properties of two natural marine clays in China

China Ocean Engineering

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 329-344

  Jiang, Ming Jing ^a   Peng, Li Cai ^a,b   Zhu, He Hua ^a   Lin, Yi Xi ^b   Huang, Liang Ji ^b  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Zhuhai Center for Supervision and Inspection on Quality of Infrastructure Engineering   (China)

Author keywords

Comparison; Macro and micro properties; Marine clay; Microstructure

Indexed keywords

COASTAL CITIES; COMPARISON; CONSOLIDATION PRESSURE; DISPERSED STRUCTURE; FLOCCULATED STRUCTURE; HIGH PRESSURE; HOLOCENE; IN-SITU TEST; LABORATORY TEST; LOW CONFINING PRESSURE; MARINE CLAY; MARINE CLAYS; MERCURY INTRUSION; POROUS STRUCTURES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; SOIL SAMPLE; STRAIN SOFTENING; UNDRAINED SHEAR STRENGTH; X-RAY DIFFRACTION TESTS;

CONSOLIDATION; FLOCCULATION; KAOLINITE; MERCURY (METAL); MICROSTRUCTURE; MINERALS; MINING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SHEAR STRENGTH; SILICATE MINERALS; SOILS; STRAIN HARDENING; STRESS-STRAIN CURVES; STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES; TESTING;

SOIL TESTING;

EID: 67650716994     PISSN: 08905487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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